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Marshall football boasts early commitments

Jul. 08, 2014 @ 12:49 AM

So many, so soon.

That's a succinct description of the Marshall football program's 2015 recruiting class.

Just check the calendar.

It's still early July, the 2014 season-opener at Miami (0hio) is still 53 days away and National Signing Day is still 199 days in the distance, yet the Herd has 13 verbal commitments for the Class of '15.

Marshall never has had so many commitments this early in school history.

Not that there's anything wrong with it.

There's a reason it's called a "verbal" commitment.

That means it is non-binding and either Marshall or the recruit can renege.

Yet, there's a trend of prospects wanting to get the recruiting process over before their senior year of high school football begins.

That means these verbal commitments are more meaningful than mere whims.

That gives credence to this list of early recruits.

So, what makes this so compelling?

The quantity.

Marshall's Class of '15 figures to be the smallest recruiting class since Doc Holliday became head coach.

That's due to a combination of factors.

The first factor is the size of Holliday's previous classes. After taking 25 recruits in 2010 - his first class - the next four recruiting classes numbered 29, 30, 29 and 28 in 2014.

That's 141 recruits.

And guess what?

Eighty-some of them are still around. In fact, five members of that first class in 2010 remain on Marshall's roster.

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